Improved fastening for securing traces to whiffletrees



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

B. D. BEED, OF INDEPENDENCE, IOWA. i

IMPROVED FASTENlNG FOR SECURING TRACES T0 WHIFFLETREES.

Specification forming part of Lcttcrs Patent No. 36,027., dated July2'), 1862.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, B. D. REED, of Independence, in the county ofBuchanan and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Fasteningfor Securing Traces to Whiflietrees and for Similar Purposes; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in Which- Figure 1 isalongitudinal section of my invention, taken in the line :1: .r of Fig.2;,and Fig. 2, a side View of the same.

Similar lletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the twofigures.

The object of this invention is to obtain a fastening of simpleconstruction which will not admit of' the articles which it connects orfastens together becoming casually detached, and which will at the same`time admit of being very readily applied to said articles, and alsoadmit of being readily unfastened in order to detach or disconnect thearticles which it fastens together.

To enables those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct`my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a metal loop of the usual form, commonly called acockeye,77 one part, a, of which is of sufficient width to leave thetrace or other article which is to be attached to it to pass through andbe doubled and stitched, as shown in red. (See more particularly Fig.l.)

Theloop A may be of any convenient length, and it is contracted or madequite narrow at the part b opposite to where the trace is attached. Inthis narrow part b of the loop a metal tube, B, is secured by solderingor brazing; or, if the loop be of cast metal, the tube may be cast withit.

Within the tube B there is placed a pin, O, on which a spiral spring, c,is placed. This spring c is also tted within the tube B, and one end ofit bears against a shoulder, d, on the pin, and the other end bearsagainst the back end of the tube, as shown at c in Fig. 1. The spring chas a tendency to keep the front end of the pin O out from the tube Btoward the narrow end of the loop, ahead, f, on the back end of the pindetermining the distance the pin can be shoved out from the tube.

The narrow end of the loop Ais sufficiently large to receive the end ofan arm or rod, D, which is connected to the end of the whifietree orother article which is to be connected to the article to which the loopAis attached. The arm or rod D,near its end,is provided with a groove,g,whicl1 is made circumferentially in it, as shown clearly in Fig. l,and when the end of the arm or rod D is fitted in the narrow end or partof the loop A the front end of pin O is forced into it by the spring c,and serves to retain it in the loop. The narrow end of the loop alsoiits in the groove g atapoint op# posite the front end of the pin O, andthe arm or rod D is therefore effectually prevented from casuallywithdrawing from the loop, as will be seen by referring to Fig. l.

In order to detach the armor rod D from the loop A all that is requiredis to draw back the pin O, so that its front end will be free from thegroove g, and the arm or rod D may be then withdrawn.

This fastening may be constructed ata very small cost, and isparticularly well adapted for fastening traces to whiffletrees, as itadmits of the traces being very readily attached to the whiftletree, aswell as being readily detached therefrom, and also effectually preventsthe casual detachment of the traces from the whifiietree.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a trace-loopor cockeye provided with a tube, B, and spring-pin C, and otherwise madeas herein shown and described.

B. D. REED.

Witnesses:

H. P. BRowNE, J. B. THOMAS.

